The Garden Thread

[awheelterd]

When I saw this thread bumped, I figured someone was going to be showing off their collard pictures

 

[ponykilr]

I talked to my poop supplier and will be picking some up as soon as we have a break from rain. I will check today but I feel the garden is too wet to disk up and spread compost.

 

[83oldyoda4x4]

I talked to my poop supplier and will be picking some up as soon as we have a break from rain. I will check today but I feel the garden is too wet to disk up and spread compost.

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How long has it been sitting?

 

[ponykilr]

How long has it been sitting?

Minimum 3 years.

If it’s fresh it’ll rob nitrogen rather than fertilize.

 

[ponykilr]

Well I managed to get the garden turned over. Before we did that we walked it and got up the rocks on the surface. We have gotten this many at least twice before if we keep going it may be just dirt eventually.

I already see more after I turned it over

 

[83oldyoda4x4]

Well I managed to get the garden turned over. Before we did that we walked it and got up up the rocks on the surface. We have gotten this many at least twice before if we keep going it may be just dirt eventually.

I already see more after I turned it over

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I see you grow rocks as good us down here. lol

 

[ponykilr]

I see you grow rocks as good us down here. lol

Yessir! Soil is just that fertile, rocks appear to multiply like taters!

On the plus side, I think my wife is ready to buy a root rake

I need to buy/borrow or rent a pto tiller…..

 

[paradisePWoffrd]

They make a sifting bucket, or build a screen sifter to sit in the garden and dump dirt/rocks on. Could help get the large pieces from your compost too

 

[ponykilr]

 

[rodney eppes]

I got 2 of the [?] buttercups; one has bloomed out, the second hasn't yet. Azaleas are loaded with buds, just waiting on that Hard freeze!

 

[ponykilr]

Ran the disc over it multiple times and then turned it again to get it mixed up well. Poop incoming as soon as things dry out again. Then more disc harrow work.

Bought some wide mouth lids and looking for more wide mouth qt jars and regular pints.

The new Kubota makes everything so much easier. It pulls the bottom plow easily and the disc effortlessly.

My seed catalog came, gotta get them ordered.

Planning to plant a Stuart and Amling pecan trees too.

 

[Loganwayne]

Probably not going to have a garden this year still to much cleaning up todo to put forth the effort this year. We did plant a 1/2 dozen black berry, raspberry each and 4 blueberry bushes. And should be getting about a 1/2 dozen dwarf apple trees in a couple weeks. Wife said she may want a plum tree as well

 

[YJJPWrangler]

Been working on the garden the last two weekends. Spent yesterday getting the water drip irragtion setup for both the raised bed, potato box, and the buckets. With a full barrel, I have pretty good water pressure but I'm thinking about adding an inline water transfer pump(12v) that runs off a battery/solar panel to increase the pressure. I've got another barrel at the house that is filled from the gutter as my "supply" barrel that keeps the garden barrel full.

So far Im planning on planting: tomatoes, jalapenos, banana peppers, zucchini, squash, cucumbers, vidalia onions, redskin potatoes. Hoping to make salsa and tomato sauce plus pickled peppers and pickles.

 

[WARRIORWELDING]

Wish the ground would dry out some. I plowed a 46x26 ish spot under. Turned it with a two bottom type plow.....tractor grunted on it. Has been grass field for several years. Let that lay almost a month and ran a set of straight rippers through it a bunch.
I want to turn it again but with all the rain I can't get back in it.
Seedling look decent. Got some yellowing on some leaves. We stepped them into larger containers tonight. Gonna give them 12 hrs of light instead of the eight and get my wife to water a little less and see what happens.

We sprouted in a seed starter mix of vermiculite, peat moss, and coconut coir.
The transplant got a light ratio of miracle grow vegetable potting soil. We'll see, it's all an experimental for us. We have always bought from greenhouses then transplanted stuff we didn't direct seed.

 

[rodney eppes]

Maybe I'm lucky to have two different type of Azaleas; early bloomers, & standard. The Frost got the early bloomers, but spared the standard bushes! Some years, I loose Both. The other day, I discovered a lonely Wild-thing, growing in my yard. I decided to relocate it, and some monkey grass, to where an old cedar died out. Hope it last! Someone here will know what it is.

 

[benmack1]

 

[ponykilr]

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True story

 

[R Q]

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Wish the ground would dry out some. I plowed a 46x26 ish spot under. Turned it with a two bottom type plow.....tractor grunted on it. Has been grass field for several years. Let that lay almost a month and ran a set of straight rippers through it a bunch.
I want to turn it again but with all the rain I can't get back in it.
Seedling look decent. Got some yellowing on some leaves. We stepped them into larger containers tonight. Gonna give them 12 hrs of light instead of the eight and get my wife to water a little less and see what happens.

We sprouted in a seed starter mix of vermiculite, peat moss, and coconut coir.
The transplant got a light ratio of miracle grow vegetable potting soil. We'll see, it's all an experimental for us. We have always bought from greenhouses then transplanted stuff we didn't direct seed.

You should just grow weed so you might get a return on your investent! LOL J/K!

 

[WARRIORWELDING]

You should just grow weed so you might get a return on your investent! LOL J/K!

My wife would in a heart beat. She has said it many times that we should be ready to grow if ever legalized. This is one substance I can say I haven't ever tried.

 

[Loganwayne]

My wife would in a heart beat. She has said it many times that we should be ready to grow if ever legalized. This is one substance I can say I haven't ever tried.

Several farmers that we hunt near have test plots of hemp. It can all be done the same way tobacco is started and grown.

 

[ponykilr]

Ready to pull up into rows.

 

[awheelterd]

Got mine hilled up and mostly in. My wife's students started a bunch of seeds in for a project so she brought them home for me to plant. Problem is that the dummy (my wife) didn't label anything and I can't tell the difference in half of it. Gonna be a jacked up garden

 

[WARRIORWELDING]

Hardening off our plants.

This thing I built works pretty good.

We got a big storm and rain day after I got this done. It all held and no wash. We got taters in, late but oh well.

Bee yard has grown and gotten plum nuts. I think I have a bee addiction. Absolutely challenging and aggravating at times. I estimate about 110 to 120 pounds of honey packed away already by our best hives....like 2 to 3 percent of the boxes pictured. The rest are the mentioned headaches and challenges.

 

[Loganwayne]

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Hardening off our plants.
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This thing I built works pretty good.
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We got a big storm and rain day after I got this done. It all held and no wash. We got taters in, late but oh well.
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Bee yard has grown and gotten plum nuts. I think I have a bee addiction. Absolutely challenging and aggravating at times. I estimate about 110 to 120 pounds of honey packed away already by our best hives....like 2 to 3 percent of the boxes pictured. The rest are the mentioned headaches and challenges.

If you plan on doing any splits next year let me know. I'd rather get bees semi local vs. Ordering packages they never do as well

 

[WARRIORWELDING]

If you plan on doing any splits next year let me know. I'd rather get bees semi local vs. Ordering packages they never do as well

Definitely if you wanted them this year would have been great. I plan on building 10 nucs for that reason. I have already been fighting swarms. You get them to survive the next is management. Had I been able to knock them back I wouldn't have grown this big.